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…showed last 75 words of 748 total…of the relationship the narrator had with his mother is clarified by their shared sense of humor. The reader also feels at this point that their relationship will survive by humor in memory thereby overcoming the morbid aspects of death. The narrator has relived the entire experience by retelling it, but he has also reached a new level knowing his memories will survive and his mother's spirit will live on in a new shared understanding.